07/03/2022 - Other winners include House Arrest, The Accusation, Sisterhood, The Staffroom, The World After Us, As Far as I Can Walk, Darkling and Heroes

The 50th edition of the Belgrade International Film Festival FEST (27 February-6 March) ended on Sunday night with an awards ceremony that saw Australian filmmaker Justin Kurzel's Cannes Competition title Nitram win the main prize of the festival, the Belgrade Victor for Best Film. The film's star, Caleb Landry Jones, received the Best Actor gong, repeating his Cannes success. A Special Mention went to another Cannes entry, Aleksey German Jr's House Arrest [+see also:
trailer
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The jury, comprising Miloš Biković, Tamara Dragičević (both from Serbia) and Toni Gojanović (Croatia/Germany), plus Greek director Argyris Papadimitropulos and György Ráduly, the director of the Film Archive of the Hungarian National Film Institute, handed the Best Director Award to North Macedonia's Dina Duma for her Karlovy Vary title Sisterhood [+see also:
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interview: Dina Duma, Antonia Belazelk…
film profile].

Yvan Attal and Yaël Langmann received the Best Screenplay Award, and Suzanne Jouannet was crowned Best Actress, for Attal's Venice-premiered The Accusation [+see also:
film review
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interview: Yvan Attal
film profile]. The film also won the FEDEORA Prize. The Best Debut gong went to Croatia's Sonja Tarokić for the Karlovy Vary Special Mention-winning The Staffroom [+see also:
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interview: Sonja Tarokić
film profile].

Stefan Arsenijević's As Far as I Can Walk [+see also:
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interview: Stefan Arsenijević
film profile], which picked up five awards at Karlovy Vary last summer, received the "Milutin Čolić" Award from daily paper Politika, and Dušan Milić's Darkling [+see also:
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interview: Dušan Milić
film profile] picked up the "Nebojša Djukelić" Award.

In the FEST Focus section, Louda Ben Salah-Cazanas' Berlinale Panorama 2021 title The World After Us [+see also:
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interview: Louda Ben Salah-Cazanas
film profile] snagged the Best Film Award, while a Special Mention went to Serbian director Goran Nikolić's Heroes [+see also:
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film profile], which had its world premiere at the festival.

Here is the full list of award winners:

Main Competition

Belgrade Victor for Best Film
Nitram - Justin Kurzel (Australia)
Special Mention
House Arrest [+see also:
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film profile] - Aleksey German Jr (Russia)

Best Director
Dina Duma - Sisterhood [+see also:
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interview: Dina Duma, Antonia Belazelk…
film profile] (North Macedonia/Kosovo/Montenegro/France)

Best Screenplay
Yvan Attal, Yaël Langmann - The Accusation [+see also:
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interview: Yvan Attal
film profile] (France)

Best Actress
Suzanne Jouannet - The Accusation

Best Actor
Caleb Landry Jones - Nitram

Best Debut
The Staffroom [+see also:
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interview: Sonja Tarokić
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FEDEORA Prize
The Accusation - Yvan Attal

"Nebojša Djukelić" Award
Darkling [+see also:
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interview: Dušan Milić
film profile] - Dušan Milić (Serbia/Bulgaria/Denmark/Italy/Greece)

"Milutin Čolić" Award
As Far as I Can Walk [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Stefan Arsenijević
film profile] - Stefan Arsenijević (Serbia/France/Luxembourg/Bulgaria/Lithuania)

FEST Focus Award
The World After Us [+see also:
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interview: Louda Ben Salah-Cazanas
film profile] - Louda Ben Salah-Cazanas (France)
Special Mention
Heroes [+see also:
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